DAY TRIPS: The memorial on the banks of the Brazos River honors a native son who served at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Waco Suspension Bridge, looks like the shape of a ship from above and features a 9-foot bronze statue of Miller by, an African American opera singer from Waco.west of Waco. His mother, Henrietta, named him after her midwife, despite the protests of his father, Connery.
The third of four sons, Dorie, as he was called, was the barrel-chested star fullback on his high school football team. Just shy of his 20th birthday he joined the Navy.as a messman. When the first Japanese bombs struck his ship in Pearl Harbor, he was below deck. Miller raced to the main deck where he helped move the critically wounded captain to safety. Then he manned an unattended deck gun, which he wasn't trained on, and began firing at the airplanes until he was ordered to abandon ship along with the remaining crew.. He was never awarded the, though he has been nominated many times.
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